Rumi / Annemarie Schimmel and Paul Bergne.

By:

Schimmel, Annemarie, []

Contributor(s):

Bergne, Paul [translator.]

Material type:

TextSeries: Makers of Islamic civilizationPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: xii, 124 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0198099819 (pbk.)
9780198099819 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Contents:

CONTENTS: Editor's note ; Foreword -- Life and work -- Mevlana's poetical work -- The religious foundations -- Thoughts about God -- Mevlana as teacher -- The mysterium of love -- What does Rumi's work mean to us? -- Bibliographical information -- Notes -- Index.

Summary: Situating Rumi in his religious and literary context, this book explains the echoes in Rumi's writings of Qur'an and Prophetic traditions, and the everyday religious life of Muslims, and explains his debt to predecessors among poets like and Fariduddin 'Attar, and Sufis and thinkers like Hallaj, Qushayri, Ghazali.

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	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		891.5 RUM					Available			30011413

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-117) and index.

Situating Rumi in his religious and literary context, this book explains the echoes in Rumi's writings of Qur'an and Prophetic traditions, and the everyday religious life of Muslims, and explains his debt to predecessors among poets like and Fariduddin 'Attar, and Sufis and thinkers like Hallaj, Qushayri, Ghazali.

Translated from the German.